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2/07/2013

Topic Reading-Vol.302-2/7/2013

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Facebook After Death: Who Owns Your Pages When You Die?
Facbook has just celebrated its ninth Anniversary, which currently has over 1 billion live active users around the world, which number was merely a million in 2004. Over the course of nine years, there must be numbers of Facebook pages seem to be occupied by deceased people.
Facebook has created a function allowing Facebook pages to become memorials, called memorialized account, after they have died to deal with this growing number of deceased users. The below is an example;
 
Hi Ron,
We are very sorry to hear about your loss. Per our policy for deceased users, we have memorialized (Name)’s account. This removes certain more sensitive information and sets privacy so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or find (Name) in search. The Wall remains so that friends and family can leave posts in remembrance.
Unfortunately, we cannot provide login information for the account. This is to protect (Name)’s privacy. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Thanks for contacting Facebook,

Now, you may wonder what happens to other online private properties such as Twitter, emails, and photos and videos after you die?
Enjoy reading and learning about growing concerns about online properties of the deceased.

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